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but to Truth, to Liberty and Law; No Favors Win us and no Fear 8^ all Awe.1 M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2f, 1896. fited? Will they not receive a liigher ALTGELD AS A BORBOWEIL price for their products? Maybe a ________ higher price for their products ? Maybe a higher price, but not higher value. Bon. W. S. Form an Exposes tho Of what use is it to have a dollar in- Governor's Practices. stead of a half dollar if the dollar can' ' purchase no more than the half dollar? . And will farmers receive even nominal- * ®nsln^s8 of tho Southern Illinois ly a; much higher price than they do * te°^. ^frPptcy now? * , *: vw.it A RINGING LETTEB. 16 TO I . What is the True and Logical Reason OFFICE IN THE NICHOLS BLOCK. Two Doors North of ferry & Owen's Stor*, (Ron. W. S. Fcp-man, "sound momey" candidate for governor, continues his determined opposition to Gov. Altgeld. In a speech at Chester recently he said: I waict to say a few words about your southern Illinois penitentiary, located at C hester. I werut throiigh that prison the other day by invitation of the war­ den. Imagine, if you can, the great, peerless state of Illinois, through its representatives, begging for credit for a bairrel of hams or a wagon of potatoes. (Loud applause and a voice: "Don'tbe­ lieve at!") Well, I'll prove it to you be­ fore I am through. .It is a sad factiihat our penal institution qit Chester was bankrupt, and I'm not sure that even DOW it can pay its debts or obtain cred­ it. I reiterate that statement, to make it more effective and to point a moral to Mr. Altgeld's boasts of the business administration that he promised to give the penal and charitable institutions of Illinois. I hope the people of the state appre­ ciate the quality of the business admin­ istration Altgeld has given them. (Ap­ plause.) It has been his business to borrow money from Tom, Dick amd Harry, from the state treasury,and after­ ward from Durfee and Henirichsen, to pay Ramsay's bondsmen, amd af ter that from the treasurers of the state institu­ tions to pay Llinrichsen and Durfee, or, rather, the banks they represented. Barrow, barrow, borrow, to keep his > own head above water, and when his * own credit was gone the state funds were used for private purposes. Altgeld learned the borrowing lesson early in his administration, and the lat­ ter part of his incumbency has been dis­ graced by a -willful .disregard far the credit amid standing of the state of Illi­ nois in the business world). I assert that the Chester penitentiary was so deeply in debt that merchants and tradesmen would not give its manage­ ment credit, amd in support of that accu­ sation, in part, I will read this letter, addressed to a prominent attorney oi Ghesteri--For obvious reasons, I omit--|------ names: "July 22,1S96.--To > Chester, 111.--Dear Sir: We have an Inquiry for report of the Individual means of the commissioners of the southern Illinois penitentiary. It Is said they order goods In the name of one and another of their number, and It is de- sired to know if the state is responsible for their contracts and how they are situ­ ated financially in their own right, so that in case the state is not responsivle it could be made off them. Hoping for an early re­ ply, we are, yours truly, "R. Q. DUN & CO." » The reading of this letter was fol­ lowed by loud cheers and applause. Continuing, Mr. Forman said: the farmer will receive but little for Ms harvest. "Men on salaries will scarcely hopei to have their salaries doubled, even nom­ inally, and then their salaries, such as they may be, will have only half the purchasing power they have to-day. "Those who owe debts payable--prin­ cipal, or interest--in gold'will receive the same salaries as to-day, and their salaries will have but half the debt paying power which they have to-day.. "It Is the great fallacy of the day to be attributing our hard times to the gold standard. |7 "One of the chief causes of hard times to-day Is the agitation for a radical change In the currency of the country.. "If the American people put down by an overwhelming majority this agita­ tion---bury it out of sight--one chief cause of hard times will be out of the way. Other causes may remain, more or less. That of the general competi­ tion with all the nations of the earth must remain. Good times, however, may be expected to came back, surely, even if only gradually. "That the great American nation will, as a nation, declare to the world that It will now make a law compelllhg Its cred­ itors to be satisfied with half or a little more, of the money they loaned It, and go on record in the eyes of the world M a broken down, bankrupt, repudiating na­ tion, Is not possible to believe. "I may, of course, be mistaken. But I have come to look upon the present agitation as the great test of universal suffrage and popular sovereignty. Can the people defend public honor and the institutions of the country at the polls, as they have done on the field of battle? Can they be so calm and deliberate in their judgment, so careful to weigh all things in the scale of reason, and to avoid all rash experiments, that they can be trusted with the sentiments of grave social and political problems? That is the question that is before us at TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Subscriptions receive" for three ( months in the same proportion- V" "Put, m far as it is possible to hu­ mane ingenuity, outside of partisan politics, independent of all political in­ fluences through their life-tenure of office, the judges of this court rule con­ gress and president, states and nation, and expound the law in all its inflexi­ bility, no matter who or what must yield to it. And now a convention speaks of the- supreme court 'as it may be hereafter constituted,' intimating unmistakably, if the party represented in that convention comes to power, the intention to so constitute the courts', by the popular election of the judges, by the shortening of their term of of­ fice or otherwise, as to make it insen­ sible to the stern voice of the law, and responsive to the passing whims of po­ litical parties. "Worse, to my mind, than all this, is the spirit of socialism that permeates the whole movement which has issued from the convention of Chicago. It is the 'international' of Europe, now tak­ ing body in America. Of this one can­ not but be convinced when the move­ ment is closely observed, the shib­ boleths of its adherents listened to, the discourse of its orators carefully ex­ amined. "The war of class against class is upon us, the war of the proletariat against the property holder. No other meaning than this can be given to the appeals to 'the common people,' 'to la­ bor,' 'to the poor and downtrodden,' and to the denunciations against 'plu­ tocrats' and 'corporations' and 'money- grabbers' and 'bankers.' "Many adherents of the movement do not perceive It's fuU meaning; but let them beware, they are lighting torches which, born in the hands of reckless men, F. L. MCOMBER. | West Side Hardware Store. JULIA A. STORY, DKALEB TN BUSINESS OAHDS L. N. WOOD, M. D. 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